iPhoneSlide.com is a simple little web tool that solves the problem of instantly uploading iPhone photos to one (or more) of your favorite web services - Facebook, Wordpress, Flickr, Blogger, or Typepad - in one pass via email. Take a photo and email it with subject and text to post@iphoneslide.com. You will get a [...]
StumbleUpon, the social Web service, is doing something pretty cool. No, it’s not going to earn back the $75 million eBay (EBAY) paid for it. But it’s going to start overlaying the information its members have provided about a Web page — whether they like it or don’t, and what they’ve written about it — [...]
It is becoming increasingly obvious: Big media companies (content owners) are lining up against YouTube & Google (GOOG), and are coming up with their own strategies for online video. Today, NBC (GE) confirmed to NewTeeVee that it pulled its content off YouTube in a shift towards its own service, a joint venture with News [...]
Dave Winer, whom I have dubbed “The Constant Tinkerer,” has come up with yet another way to consume information in a simple and easily navigable manner. Well known for his work on RSS and OPML, he is now shifting his attention to finding new ways to consume news from large information sources such as [...]
Flickr has long been a darling of photo lovers, primarily for its minimalist (and intuitive) user interface. However, with over a billion photos, Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of the Yahoo-owned photo service, it is becoming hard to find stuff, and it is time for a new user experience revolving around the concept of discovery.Click To Play[...]
Forget Steve Ballmer’s “you will dunk” quip, or whatever else happened inside the big hall at the Web 2.0 Summit, the story line for today was all-Facebook. The question about Facebook’s pending funding was repeated with mind-numbing regularity.It was hard to walk the lobby and not have some be fascinated, bemused or simply disgusted [...]
Written by Alistair Croll, Coradiant co-founder and VP of product management who blogs about online user performance and networking. Earlier this year, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg decided to let people build applications atop his social networking site. Many of the attendees at this week’s Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco agree that it was [...]
There’s big action in search engines these days: see Web Worker Daily’s list of 11 alternative search engines, Read/Write Web’s top 100, and the GigaOM show’s opening question to Google’s (GOOG) Marissa Mayer about the spate of search engine competitors.But even as would-be Googles aim at the apparent heart of search — the keyword [...]
In the 2007 postseason, Alex Rodriguez batted .267, had an on-base percentage of .353 and hit a home run.In the third quarter of 2007, Google’s revenue jumped 57 percent for its first $3 billion quarter, pushed profit 46 percent higher to $3.38 a share and beat the Street’s estimates by 16 cents a share.See where [...]
It is only a matter of time before Facebook gets some insane amount of money from someone like Microsoft (MSFT), but one thing is clear: it isn’t going to sit in the bank for very long. The company is growing way too fast and it needs a lot of servers and data center space. [...]
